#anyways yaaaaay !!!!

[cor-lapis]

"If we must fight, Sethos... I shall defeat you with the power of my friend group of employed adults who miraculously have regularly scheduled meet-ups, and also my daughter!"

[redesigns]

[mothhue]

A hat under waters: The finale, time's end.

Last year in febuary, I drew and posted my first concept of this silly AU, and exactly one year later; here we are!

Thank you so much to everyone who supported this AU, and to everyone who left kind words in the notes. It's been a delight reading through them, and I'm very happy to see that people enjoy seeing the silly things I do! :D

I hope you had fun watching through this little AU of mine, I sure had a blast making it.

Happy birthday a hat under waters, and thank you for watching.

[skunkes]

all of february's chibis ^_^

[chompe-diem]

hey. don't cry. audible smile in brian murphy's voice when he says "...but it's good when your friends look out for you" ok?

[todayisafridaynight]

comm for @funghettoo 's fic 'The one man I ever loved' - tyvm for commissionin me !!

Commission Info (July 7th, 2024)

[bobby-rising]

let time pass

[cerealmonster15]

puts my son in the purple dimension. or maybe he's entering into your dream to show you his hamsters. either way He Has Arrived

[noctilu-uca]

Hey im back @viimayhem @aeonvy @tardigradetv

[oyasleepy]

chuuni angel who wants to be a demon sooo bad

[moonpie016]

I made doodles.

*Hands them over.*

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It's, it's the Mind. The Mindset of drawing Mind is haunting me again. (No pun intended.)

Ok now we have..this?

This is a Good Day reference.

I was going to do something else when this appeared in my head to put into reality.

I didn't add lyrics because I was deciding whether it would've looked good.

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Buuuuut, for ....not that long of a time period, minus thinking and existing, I've made some progression on the SaaS animatic. (Surprising. But good! Not done yet.)

And that's all until whenever. As always.

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[spark-circuit]

gotta love a guy who is. just unknowable. 💖

[trojanteapot]

The Star, upright and reversed.

[namelessprince]

drew my ocs as riptide characters :3

[thedndgoblinwholivesinyourwalls]

Hapoy yearntober. to my gays out there

[todayisafridaynight]

[com]

Commission Info (November 7th, 2023)

[girderednerve]

Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries via their digital catalogs, forcing librarians who are already understaffed to either sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI, or to spend taxpayer dollars to provide patrons with information they don’t realize is AI-generated.

With Hoopla, librarians have to opt into Hoopla’s entire catalog, then pay for whatever their customers choose to borrow from that catalog. The only way librarians can limit what Hoopla books their customers can borrow is by setting a limit on the price of books. For example, a library can use Hoopla but make it so their customers can only borrow books that cost the library $5 per use.

“Investigating these authors, their book covers, their social media, etc takes A LOT OF TIME, especially with the volume of questionable material increasing month to month (and that's not including the sheer amount of legitimate books published each month in adult fiction that I'm looking at),” one librarian who asked to remain anonymous so she could talk openly about her job, told me. “Is it the best use of my time doing this work on top of my other duties when customers may or may not care? And with the rising multitudes of AI generated content, will there come a point where it just ‘is what it is?’”

This type of low quality, AI generated content, is what we at 404 Media and others have come to call AI slop. Librarians, whose job it is in part to curate what books their community can access, have been dealing with similar problems in the publishing industry for years, and have a different name for it: vendor slurry. While the term now encompasses what seems like AI-generated content as well, it predates the rise of generative AI, and also refers to the glut of low quality, often self-published ebooks or book “summaries” that are common on Hoopla. As some librarians told me, the sheer quantity of books in Hoopla’s service makes it seem more valuable because it offers such a large number of books, but in reality that number is misleadingly inflated by this slurry.

Several of the librarians I talked to said that they are worried about discussing [the problems raised by Hoopla's weak, unclear selection policies, including the 2022 inclusion of explicitly white nationalist texts,] because of the growing hostility towards libraries and groups like Moms for Liberty demanding that books about LGBTQ rights, race, and ethnicity be removed from libraries. One the one hand, librarians want to curate their collections and make sure their patrons are getting access to quality information. On the other hand, they don’t want people to think that they are trying to censor what materials patrons can access in way that’s comparable to what organizations like Moms for Liberty want. None of the librarians I talked to suggested the AI-generated content needed to be banned from Hoopla and libraries only because it is AI-generated. It might have its place, but it needs to be clearly labeled, and more importantly, provide borrowers with quality information.